| | | 2.__Right of legislative employees.__A person may not directly | | or indirectly interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce or | | discriminate against legislative employees or a group of | | legislative employees in the free exercise of their rights, | | hereby given, voluntarily to join, form and participate in the | | activities of independent labor organizations of their own | | choosing for the purposes of representation and collective | | bargaining, or in the free exercise of any other right under this | | chapter. |
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| | | Sec. 4. Effect on existing contract. This Act has no effect on any | | contract existing on the effective date of this Act. The | | Executive Director of the Legislative Council may not enter into | | or renew any contract that provides collective bargaining rights | | to legislative employees represented by a union that is not an | | independent labor organization as defined in the Maine Revised | | Statutes, Title 26, section 979-A, subsection 4-B after the | | effective date of this Act. |
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| | | This bill requires the collective bargaining agent of | | legislative employees to be an independent labor organization, | | which is a labor organization that neither represents employees | | outside of the Maine Legislature nor is affiliated with an | | organization that represents employees outside of the Maine | | Legislature. |
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